HYMN XLIII. Soma Pavamana.

1. WE will enrobe with sacred song the Lovely One who, as a Steed,

Is decked with milk for rapturous joy.

2 All songs of ours desiring grace adorn him in the ancient way,

Indu for Indra, for his drink.

3 Soma flows on when purified, beloved and adorned with songs,

Songs of the sage Medhyatithi.

4 O Soma Pavamana, find exceeding glorious wealth for us,

Wealth, Indu, fraught with boundless might.

5 Like courser racing to the prize Indu, the lover of the Gods,

Roars, as he passes, in the sieve.

6 Flow on thy way to win us strength, to speed the sage who praises thee:

Soma, bestow heroic power.